kyladycaver Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Question for the oregon folk: Don't you pump your own gas? Some dude yelled at me in Terrebonne as I was pumping gas into my car yesterday.....he kept saying "lady you're in oregon, you're in oregon" (I'm thinkin "yeah, I'm blonde but not that dumb...I, uh, know I'm in Oregon." But evidently I am more blonde than I thought cuz when he saw that wasn't getting thru he switched to "you're in oregon...you can't pump your own gas here." What's up with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Just some dumb law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barjor Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I hate the oregon gas pumping law. Wait for some dumb fuck to get his lazy ass over to my car, just to have him spill the whole side full of gas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglehead Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Well, when that law was passed, gas pumping was considered a desirable "High Tech" sector career, with all them levers and siwtches and numbers and what not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratboy Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 That's why I get gas just before I cross into Oregon and try my damnedest to have enough gas to cross back before refueling. Oregon gas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 That's why I get gas just before I cross into Oregon and try my damnedest to have enough gas to cross back before refueling. Oregon gas. Absolutely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Yeah, I used to fret about buying gas in Oregon too. It was scary because it was different . Once I realized getting your gas pumped in Oregon does not cost an arm and a leg more (like "full-serve" back when it existed), I no longer feared it. Now I'm just scared of buying stuff in Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farva Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?" so true. it's not any more expensive so why the heck not have someone pump your gas and clean your windshield???? someone at a gas station told me that the law was passed to protect jobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 (edited) someone at a gas station told me that the law was passed to protect jobs. I sure hope they don't have any ATM's, then. Edited June 27, 2005 by Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyladycaver Posted June 27, 2005 Author Share Posted June 27, 2005 the guy did say to me...."you're can't pump you're own gas, because you'd be taking away my job!"......then to show me who was boss, when the pump clicked off, he made wait forever before coming back out to "do his job!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratboy Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Try gettting gas in Oregon after say 11pm, particularly in the smaller towns. You can't. All the stations are closed. And god forbid you get to pump your own after hours. But I avoid it mostly on principle. Fuck 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rat Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 give an oregonian a living wage... throw your empties out the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 give an oregonian a living wage... throw your empties out the window. The modern ditch-digger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 hod carrier potboy linksman bearer Flunky, Class D, unskilled footman lackey vartlet villein serf prole day labourer dirtbag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 You forgot "apprentice crack ho" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?" So basically what your saying is you're a wimp cause your afraid of not smelling like your favorite colongn...Calvin. Oregon: there is no decent alpine climbing, tons of hippys, and you can't pump your own gas. Face it your state sucks I know you're right now, but don't worry go get yourself a double orange moca frapichino with a twist of lemon; you'll feel much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Oregon: there is no decent alpine climbing, tons of hippys, and you can't pump your own gas. Face it your state sucks I know you're right now, but don't worry go get yourself a double orange moca frapichino with a twist of lemon; you'll feel much better. It's not my state anymore. I now have more granite & bc skiing than you could do in a lifetime. And I live .5 blocks from a sunny beach. Have fun in the rainy jobless mess that is the Northwet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Don't worry I've got a job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj001f Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Don't worry I've got a job. Someones got to pick up the cans and bottles. Too bad they've don't have coffee cup deposits! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I wish WA would require a deposit on cans and bottles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 It makes sense to recycle cans, but glass should go right in the garbage. There is no conservation of anything in recycling glass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 Really, Kurt? I hadn't heard that. Can you point me to the research/evidence to confirm this? Curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I don't have sources; cause I'm too lazy to search. Basically glass is heated up sand. It takes the same energy to heat sand as it does to truck used bottles back to the glass factory and melt them down to turn them into new bottles. Furthermore since glass is sand it isn't going to leach anything nasty into the aquafer under the dump. If they made bottles to be reused instead or melted down then ther would be an energy savings; but they don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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